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" You are seeking the es- 
sence of things," said one 
to a chemist who was known 
to be making some search- 
ing experiments. " No, the 
quintessence," was the re- 
ply. The aim of " The 
Magnet" is to secure for 
its readers the quintessence 
of the teachings for the ac- 
quirement of magnetism in 
words so few that they may 
be remembered, so strong 
that they may have lasting 
power. 

LIDA A. CHURCHILL. 






Butbor of **tLbc 'ffHa^Sc Seven,* 
**B Crain of HWadness/* etc 



The aura you send out is to you the greatest 
power in the universe, and according to your 
character and hi'bi's '•^'iU b'ij^thnt aura. 



■ffl e w V o r h : 
dhc Blliance ipublisbing Company 



THE LIBRARY OF 
CONGRESS, 

Two Copies Received 

APR 10 1903 

S Copyright Entry 
CLASS C^- XXc. No. 
COPY B. 






Copyright, 1903 

by 

LiDA A. Churchill 



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CONTENTS 



PAGE 



^' ~ 

-^ I, How to Avoid Deraagnetism - o 

hi 

11. How to Create Inward Magnetism 19 

HI. How to Establish Outward Magnetism 28 

IV. How to Have a Magnetic Personality 38 

V. How to Magnetize Circumstances - 48 

VI. How to Win and to Keep Love - 60 

VII. How to Remain a Magnet - - 77 



HOW TO AVOID DEMAGNETISM. 

Have I any magnetism ? This ques- 
tion has been timidly and privately 
asked by thousands, and thousands 
more have longed to ask it. 

It is not a foolish or an unimportant 
question. If there lives a person, 
which I strongly doubt, who does not 
care whether he is magnetic or not, he 
is not wise or philosophical. Prosper- 
ity, success, health and happiness are 
things to which every one has a right, 
and of which no one should allow 
himself to be defrauded. Magnetism 
is the master key which not only un- 



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locks these things to man, but is also 
the sentinel which guards them and 
keeps them intact for him. 

"What is the kingdom of heaven?" 
asked a Bible-class teacher. "Magnet- 
ism," replied a student, "for it draws 
all other things unto it." 

We shall see that this seemingly ir- 
reverent reply was a perfectly legiti- 
mate statement. Divine magnetism 
(and all worthy magnetism is divine) 
is nothing less than the kingdom of 
heaven, and is to be coveted and 
sought for as such. 

"Yes," sighed a woman, "magnet- 
ism is something I long for, but I 
haven't a bit, and it cannot be culti- 
vated. I suppose I'm too honest and 
sincere to be called magnetic, but I 
work so hard scrubbing and sewing 
and cooking for my family that I get 
all worn out, and cannot help feeling 



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cross. I believe even my own chil- 
dren love sister Jennie better than 
they do me, though she never does 
much for them but listen to all their 
stories, and talk with them, and kiss 
them good-night. I'm too busy for all 
that." 

This speech betrays ignorance, mis- 
apprehension, and want of under- 
standing. 

The declaration that she entirely 
lacked magnetism was this woman's 
first misstatement. No one is without 
some degree of magnetism. 

How do we know that everyone has 
magnetism? Because we know that 
everyone has life. Magnetism is life. 
Perfect magnetism is the highest and 
most vital, as well as the most subtle, 
form of life. Whatever increases and 
vitalizes life increases and vitalizes 
magnetism. Whatever decreases or 



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devitalizes life decreases and devital- 
izes magnetism. 

An important and frequent reason 
why one thinks of himself, and others 
think of him, as having no magnetism 
is that he so decreases and wastes the 
magnetism which he naturally pos- 
sesses that it becomes so weak as to al- 
most or wholly lose its power to at- 
tract. In other words, he works ac- 
cording to the law of demagnetism. 
This waste is wholly unnecessary, and 
can easily be avoided. 

He who is to cease working accord- 
ing to the law of demagnetism must 
burn in upon his consciousness the 
truth that all action is not life. We 
hear certain people spoken of as being 
"all alive," when the truth is they have 
very little real life. Useless nervous 
activity is not life, but the waster and 
,destrover of life. There is as much 



THE MAGNET I3 

significant, magnetic life in the contor- 
tions of a galvanized frog, or the gy- 
rations of a mechanical toy, as in the 
majority of the movements of many 
people. Just as the contortions or an- 
tics of the frog or the toy dissipate the 
motor power which causes them, so 
the useless movements of the always- 
in-motion individual dissipate his mag- 
netism. 

A certain man declared that his 
wife had scrubbed and scolded all the 
love out of his home. The woman 
quoted above had evidently done near- 
ly or quite the same thing as far as 
she herself was concerned. 

This leads to the realization of an- 
other truth : unneeded and useless ac- 
tivity never increases, hut always de- 
creases, magnetism. This woman 
scrubbed a clean house and made 
fancy clothing where plainer raiment 



14 THE MAGNET 

would have served to better purpose. 
Unneeded sacrifices, especially when 
they are constantly held up as sacri- 
fices, are never appreciated, and the 
almost never-ceasing motion of the 
hands acts as a leak for magnetism. 
It is Martha, careful, industrious, 
made irritable and fretful by her fear 
that everything would not be properly 
done, over-anxious, uselessly busy, 
who has come down through history 
as the unmagnetic woman, while to 
Mary, the quiet, reposeful, unworried 
one, was given the tender regard 
which magnetism always claims. 

"How utterly destitute he is of 
charm !" is constantly said of a certain 
man. This man is never still. Every 
waking moment he is swaying in a 
rocking-chair, twisting about on his 
seat, drumming with his fingers, tap- 
ping with his foot or some object held 



THE MAGNET I5 

in his hand, nervously whining, com- 
plaining, fault-finding, worrying, cre- 
ating and indulging in suspicions of 
others, thus breaking every law of re- 
pose and harmony, working according 
to every law of demagnetism. 

Again, the woman quoted made the 
mistake of confounding sharp, rude, 
unkind words with sincerity and hon- 
esty. Nothing is more magnetic than 
honest kindness of word and deed, 
nothing is more demagnetizing than 
cross, unsympathetic expressions and 
actions. 

We all know, and dread, the electric 
person, who is aggressive in manner, 
dogmatic in speech, quick to suspect 
that insult or impertinence is intend- 
ed, and who prides himself upon never 
"giving in" in an argument, and upon 
always "having the last word." This 
kind of person deprives his natural 



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magnetism of all power. "The last 
word" has often cost a friend or a 
cause. 

He who habitually argues, quarrels, 
or indulges in recrimination, may be 
sure that effective magnetism can no 
more be his than drawing power can 
belong to the lightning bolt or the 
crashing tornado. 

Noise, bustle, confusion, hurry, in- 
harmony, unkind words and irritable 
ways are all wasters and destroyers of 
magnetism. The earth, which is the 
mightiest magnet of which we have 
any knowledge, keeps its way in space 
and revolves on its axis with no irri- 
tation, no sound, no confusion. Every- 
where and always the absence of fric- 
tion and useless motion and emotion 
helps to create and sustain the highest 
and most effective magnetism. 

Then cease to demagnetize yourself 



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by ceasing to have inharmony in your 
life, ceasing to do useless things, to 
make useless movements and unkind 
speeches, and, above all, by ceasing to 
think of yourself as having no mag- 
netism. 

SUMMARY AND EXERCISE. 

Everyone has some degree of mag- 
netism. This magnetism may be much 
decreased, or nearly all v^asted, by in- 
harmony of mind, constant useless and 
nervous movements, violent or irri- 
table expressions, and disbelief in its 
existence. 

Sit alone, and as nearly as possible 
absolutely still, not even winking, 
twenty minutes at least (a longer time 
is better) every day, and say, audibly 
or mentally : / will to stop all waste 
of magnetism. I will to cease all in- 
harmony in thought or speech. I will 



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to avoid all undue motion or emotion, 
and I hereby cease to believe that I 
have no magnetism. 



II. 

HOW TO CREATE INWARD MAGNETISM. 

Where does the first conscious at- 
tempt to create magnetism begin ? Just 
where every other important thing be- 
gins, in the center of one's being. In 
the beginning is the purpose, or the 
will, always. He who is to be mag- 
netic must first decide that he will be 
so, and then proceed to put his will 
into operation. 

In order to attract, one must, of 
course, be attractive. Now someone 
will probably think, "How can I be 
attractive? I have no beauty of even 
a single feature, and I cannot afford 
handsome clothing." 



20 THE MAGNET 

If you will think for five minutes on 
this subject, the conviction will be 
forced upon you that the great major- 
ity of the most magnetic people whom 
you have known personally, or of 
whom you have read or heard, were 
not handsome, or even pretty, of face 
or feature, or people whose clothing 
was sufficiently rich to be at all re- 
markable. The prophet declared of 
the most magnetic One who ever 
walked the earth that He had no 
beauty that men should desire Him, 
and certainly one who had no worldly 
goods, and who wandered about the 
dusty ways by day and often slept un- 
der the stars by night, could have pos- 
sessed no fine raiment. 

Napoleon was small, and plain of 
face and of dress, yet men loved him 
more than life, or home, or comfort. 
Margaret Fuller, Frances Willard and 



THE MAGNET 21 

Henry Ward Beecher were among the 
most magnetic Americans. Margaret 
Fuller was notably plain, Frances Wil- 
lard and Henry Ward Beecher far 
from handsome, and the clothing of 
these three was always simplicity it- 
self. Ninety per cent., at least, of 
those who read these lines will have 
to acknowledge that the people who 
have for them the greatest drawing 
power are not beauties or those who 
have costly wardrobes. 

What, then, is the charm ? 

**If I be Hfted up I will draw all 
men unto me," said Jesus. Think a 
little further and you will realize that 
it is they who are in some way "lifted 
up" who draw men and things. The 
Christ was lifted up in thought, in 
feeling, in sympathy, in tenderness, 
which was the important lifting up 
and the one to which He probably al- 



2 2 THE MAGNET 

luded, before he was raised on the 
cross. Napoleon, however mistaken 
he may have been, was Hfted out of 
pettiness and narrowness by a great 
ambition and ideal, and by his con- 
stant personal care for his soldiers. 
A'largaret Fuller, Frances Willard and 
Henry Ward Beecher were lifted up 
by their visions of higher and holier 
things and their endeavors to have 
these visions realized, as well as by 
their tender love and care for family 
and personal friends. There is a 
lifted-up woman in every neighbor- 
hood, one without whom no child is 
born, no friend buried. In every fam- 
ily, in every group of real friends, 
there is one to whom all the rest go in 
trouble or in joy, always sure of being 
met with understanding and sympathy, 
it may be declared that many a per- 
son who is selfish to the core, and 



THE MAGNET 23 

thinks of others only to benefit him- 
self, draws people and things unto 
him. True, but this kind of person 
does not hold the love he wins, and 
only by chicanery, or by arts and prac- 
tices unworthy of and destructive to 
real manhood or womanhood does he 
retain the material things of life. One 
who easily and often wins, and as 
easily and often loses, friends, is not 
magnetic, but fascinating, and fascina- 
tion is to magnetism what a paper 
rose is to the real blossom. The color, 
shape, and simulated life attract 
the attention and hold the interest for 
a short time, but the absence of soul 
and perfume render the most gor- 
geous artificial flower less to be de- 
sired than the tiniest dandelion or 
humblest daisy. 

This leads to the fundamental truth 
of the matter : magnetism is beautiful. 



24 THE MAGNET 

vital, glowing life which is generated 
in, and goes out from, the center of 
one's being. 

This life cannot come from belittling 
thoughts, groveling ideas or ideals, or 
cold and narrow sympathies. He who 
is to be truly magnetic must be lifted 
up above these things. 

Hypocrisy destroys magnetism. De- 
ceit is sure to be discovered, and to 
turn all minds, even those which are 
themselves deceitful, against the per- 
son who practices it. The coin that 
hypocrisy offers does not ring true, 
and will be accepted by few, and only 
for a short time. 'T do not trust him 
in spite of his fine speeches," we often 
hear one say of another; and, again, 
someone declares of a certain person, 
"He speaks gruffly, and has unpol- 
ished manners, but, somehow, I re- 
spect and like him." 



THE MAGNET 2$ 

There is a scientific explanation of 
this. It has been demonstrated during 
late years that from every living 
being there constantly issues an actual 
substance called his aura, or atmos- 
phere. An extremely sensitive person 
feels this atmosphere at once, and few- 
are so dense as not to be influenced by 
it. This aura is as much a part of 
one as heat is a part of a blaze. Its 
nature is determined by one's habitual 
thoughts and feelings. It would be as 
possible to obtain clean, clear limpid 
water from a foul and muddy pool as 
to send forth a magnetic aura from a 
mind and heart befouled and clogged 
by low, mean, selfish, impure thoughts 
and purposes. The reason that one is 
attracted or repelled by another is 
that he feels the other's attractive or 
repellant aura. 

Samantha Allen declared that she 



26 THE MAGNET 

wanted Josiah where she "could put 
her hand on him day or night." The 
magnetic person is he on whom one 
can put his mental and spiritual hand 
day or night and feel him to be pure, 
generous, large and true. Only real 
nobility ever makes one a lasting and 
holding magnet. "How shall a man 
be concealed!" exclaimed Confucius. 
A man can never be concealed. His 
expression, his attitude, his actions, 
his manners, and, above all, his aura, 
reveal him as he is. 

SUMMARY AND EXERCISE. 

Magnetism must be generated from 
the center of one's being. It is not 
necessary to have a handsome face or 
rich clothing in order to be magnetic. 
One who is to be truly magnetic must 
be lifted up above selfishness, im- 
purity, meanness, deceit and coldness. 



THE MAGNET 27 

Fascination is to magnetism what 
a paper rose is to the real blossom. 
No one can long conceal his real self. 

Say in the silence : / will to gener- 
ate magnetism. I will to. he pure and 
kind of heart, wide of sympathy, can- 
did of mind. I will to he lifted in 
spirit above everything which would 
render me less than a perfect magnet. 



III. 

HOW TO ESTABLISH OUTWARD MAG- 
NETISM. 

How shall you make your magnet- 
ism felt, so that it may prove a bless- 
ing to you and to others? Simply by 
causing it to express what is in your 
heart and to meet the needs of other 
hearts. Having filled yourself with 
strong, kind, loving, uplifting thoughts 
and ideas, let these things blossom into 
strong, kind, loving, uplifting acts and 
words. This does not mean that you 
should turn into "a mush of conces- 
sion," or allow yourself to be wrong- 
fully used, or cheated, or that you 
should countenance or condone wrong 
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THE MAGNET 29 

in Others. But there is a kindly-dig- 
nified way of differing, a sweet man- 
ner of refusing, a tenderly-firm way 
of meeting and rebuking the mistakes 
and weaknesses of others. These 
methods have the advantage over the 
usual means of hoped-for correction, 
which are angry argument, scolding, 
threatening and complaining, in that 
they usually accomplish their pur- 
pose and increase magnetism, while 
drastic measures nearly always fail 
of good results, alienate the rebuker 
and rebuked, and waste magnetism. 
The angry aura is devastating, belit- 
tling, and utterly repellent. Remem- 
ber this when you are tempted to 
send it out to your child, your friend, 
or an acquaintance. 

Next to the habit of scolding and 
fretting, and demagnetizing one's self 
by constant unneeded movements, 



3© THE MAGNET 

nothing more frequently hinders one 
from enjoying the fruits of magnet- 
ism than his failure to demonstrate his 
affection or his care for, or his interest 
in, others. "What is the use of being 
gold if you appear like brass?" asks 
Hezekiah Butterworth. Here is a 
truth to be stamped indelibly upon 
the mind: the more love you make 
manifest the more magnetism you will 
have. Why? For the reason that the 
exercise of kindly feeling creates more 
feeling of the same kind, and because 
just as you are sending out aura so is 
every one else, and when you demon- 
strate your affection for, or interest in, 
another, you cause him to send his 
magnetic atmosphere out to you, thus 
increasing the volume of your own. 
Every one you help helps you by 
making you a more perfect magnet. 
We frequently hear a person boast 



THE MAGNET 3I 

that he is "not demonstrative,'" as 
though this were something of which 
to be proud. This person would be 
very indignant if he were accused of 
withholding necessary food or cloth- 
ing from wife, or child, or friend. 
The actual fact is that in a very large 
majority of cases where he fails to 
demonstrate his affection he is with- 
holding that which is more necessary 
than a plentiful supply of food or 
much raiment, and at the same time 
keeping himself so little of an attract- 
ing power that he cannot hold those 
whom he really loves. 

The son of a well-to-do widow left 
his home and started on a train for a 
distant city, accompanied by a young 
woman whom he intended to marry. 
There was an accident, and the young 
man was taken back severely injured. 
One day during his convalescence, 



32 THE MAGNET 

when she thought him asleep, his 
mother bent over him and kissed him, 
and, shaken out of her habitual reti- 
cence by grief, exclaimed: 

''O, how coiild you leave me for 
that low girl !" 

"Why, mother," said the young 
man, who had been lying awake but 
with closed eyes, "you really do love 
me, then? I never remember your 
kissing me before. Nellie wasn't well- 
bred and educated, like you, but she 
did love me, and let me feel it all the 
time." 

In this case the mother smothered 
her inherent magnetism until it failed 
to have enough holding power to re- 
tain her son, while the naturally less 
magnetic woman strengthened hers by 
use and the addition of the aura which 
she received from her lover till it was 
powerful enough to draw the young 



THE MAGNET 3S 

man away from his mother and his 
home. 

Thousands of husbands, wives, and 
children are seeking love outside be- 
cause those at home have demag- 
netized themselves until they have no 
holding power. Many men are, or 
think they are, too busy to create mag- 
netism, and the divorce courts are 
occupied with cases of those whose 
husbands, for the sake of making a 
few more dollars, have lost the love 
and loyalty which alone would have 
made the dollars of any real worth. 
Francis Murphy used to tell of a men 
who, as he buttoned up his coat and 
rushed out at the door, would call 
back to his wife, "Consider yourself 
kissed." 

Three of magnetism's most effective 
agents are the eyes, the voice, and the 
hands. All these, when properly used, 



34 THE MAGNET 

have great magnetic power. The 
mother who often holds her child's 
hands, looks into his eyes, and speaks 
to him in the tone which expresses 
love, will find her son a lover because 
she has made herself a magnet which 
he cannot resist. Those who discour- 
age, in themselves or others, a display 
of affection, encourage unhappiness, 
heart hunger, and home devastation. 
Another thing which creates and 
strengthens magnetism is the estab- 
lishment of confidential relations be- 
tween one and one's child, or friend, 
or servant. One is always magnetic 
to the person whom he trusts. Dog- 
matism and distrust are two great 
demagnetizers. He who refuses to 
explain the reason for his demands, 
or to give trust where it may safely 
be given, does himself and those 
with wlwm he deals great injury. 



THE MAGNET 35 

"Why must I do this?" asks the 
child. "Because I say so," answers 
the mother. The child's self-respect 
is wounded and his sense of justice 
outraged by this reply, which is 
electric and repellant instead of mag- 
netic and attractive. "I can't im- 
agine why my boys have turned 
against me," said a grim-faced old fa- 
ther of two sons. "I always did my 
duty by 'em, and brought em up in 
the fear of the Lord. When they 
didn't want to pray, and asked what 
good praying did, I told 'em that was 
the Lord's business and mine, and I 
knocked 'em down and made 'em 
pray." 

Many husbands, wives, parents, 
friends, are dealing out spiritual and 
mental knockdowns, and then cannot 
imagine why those whose love they 
covet turn against them. 



36 THE MAGNET 

Remember that the aura one gener- 
ates and sends out, and which is his 
real Hfe, goes straight to the center of 
Hfe in another, and either draws back 
with it that other's love, liking, admi- 
ration, or respect, or, by its repellant 
force, drives these things farther away 
from one, or kills them altogether. It 
is for each to determine which kind 
of influence he will send out. 

SUMMARY AND EXERCISE. 

Strong, kind, loving acts, sympa- 
thetic words and tones, and expressed 
affection do much towards establish- 
ing magnetism. The eyes, the voice 
and the hands may be great magnet- 
izers. Coldness, dogmatism, and mis- 
trust demagnetize. The aura one 
sends out causes him to be magnetic 
or repellant to another. It is for him 
to determine what this aura shall be. 



THE MAGNET 37' 

Say while sitting alone : / put all 
coldness, dogmatism, and unsympa- 
thetic and harsh words and ways azvay 
from me. I zvill, by justice, by tender- 
ness, by expressed love and thoughtful 
care, to generate and send out aura 
which shall return to me bringing the 
love, friendship, or esteem of all with 
whom I, in any way, come in contact. 



IV. 

HOW TO HAVE A MAGNETIC PERSON- 
ALITY. 

How shall one make the outer man 
or woman a fitting temple for the 
beautiful and magnetic spirit and 
brain ? 

We have seen that handsome faces 
and costly clothing are not essential 
to magnetism, but this does not mean 
that one's person and dress do not 
have much to do with his drawing 
power. 

First, the person with a magnetic 

personality will not brawl, or shout, 

or talk in loud tones, or indulge in 

harsh, screaming laughter. These 

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THE MAGNET 39 

things waste magnetism and disgust 
the refined. He will speak in clear, 
low tones, but never mumble his 
words, and his laugh, when he laughs 
aloud, will be hearty and mellow. He 
will shake hands cordially, and will 
look straight into the eyes of the per- 
son whom he addresses, or who ad- 
dresses him. 

If one has not attained to the latter 
kinds of demonstration he has still 
work to do inside, for every outward 
act or tone is an indication of some 
inward state. 

Perfect cleanliness is one of the 
greatest essentials to a magnetic per- 
sonality. 

The skin breathes, and needs to 
breathe, as surely as the lungs. When 
its many thousand pores are stopped 
by the particles of dust which every 
day gather upon the body, it cannot 



4*0 THE MAGNET 

absorb the air which is essential to its 
life, nor throw off the impurities of 
which a freely breathing skin rids the 
system. Soiled skins not only dis- 
please the decent and disgust the fas- 
tidious, but they make for feeble 
vitality and, consequently, for demag- 
netism. 

Sufficient sleep is a great magnet- 
ism creator. It is during sleep that 
the worn-out brain tissues are re- 
placed and made capable of that intel- 
ligence, quick apprehension and gen- 
eration of emotion which are part of 
the effective life, and hence make for 
magnetism. The dull, stupid individ- 
ual whom want of sleep makes is 
never magnetic. 

In order that he may have that 
sense of satisfaction which leaves his 
mind free from all mortification or 
uneasiness, and thus enables him to 



THE MAGNET 4^ 

appear at his best, he who is to be 
magnetic will be clothed in garments 
which are adequate to him. They may 
be inexpensive, but they will be neat 
and well fitting, and their color will 
meet his taste and harmonize with his 
feelings. No one should be induced 
to wear anything simply because an- 
other admires it, but in which he does 
not "feel good." Worry and dissat- 
isfaction are demagnetizing, and the 
personally undesired garment causes 
these things. 

Flimsy and tawdry ornaments, 
painted faces, bleached hair, pro- 
nounced perfumes, are all demagnet- 
izers. They disgust people of taste 
and refinement, and draw upon him 
who indulges in them the electric aura 
which is created by repulsion. 

A man recently called upon an in- 
fluential and kind-hearted woman to 



42 THE MAGNET 

ask the latter's help in establishing 
him in a small business by which he 
hoped to support himself and his fam- 
ily. His story was one of struggle 
and disappointment, and a brave de- 
termination to yet win a comfortable 
living for loved ones. 

"I wanted to feel all that he told 
me," said the woman. "I honestly de- 
sired to show him that I was interest- 
ed, and to say helpful things, and to 
think of some way to really assist him, 
but his skin was dirty, his nails black, 
his coat pinned together, and there 
was the odor of some cheap perfum- 
ery about him. His eyes were scarce- 
ly lifted to my face, and he had a 
shamed air all the time he talked. All 
this so repelled me that I just couldn't 
be as cordial as I wished to be, and 
found it impossible to shake hands 
with him when he went away." 



THE MAGNET 43 

This was a case in which things 
that might easily have been avoided 
utterly prevented magnetic attrac- 
tion. 

Here is a point to be remembered: 
one who is ashamed of his conduct, 
his person, or his clothing, cannot be 
magnetic. Shame sends out a timid, 
clouded, weak aura which repels rath- 
er than attracts. 

A clean breath is a great factor in 
magnetism. "I drove through that re- 
gion once," said one who had been 
listening to a friend's enthusiastic de- 
scription of the scenery in the Berk- 
shire hills. "Did you not think it 
beautiful?" asked the friend. "What 
I remember most distinctly," was the 
reply, "was the disgusting breath of 
the young man with whom I was driv- 
ing. I might have married him (for 
until that day I thought myself rap- 



44 THE MAGNET 

idly falling in love with him) had he 
not drank liquor and eaten onions on 
that particular afternoon." 

Cheerfulness and serene joyousness 
are tremendous magnetism builders. 

You have probably been in the com- 
pany of several listless, uninterested 
people, when one entered with alert 
looks and shining eyes, cheerfulness 
and joy radiating from him as warmth 
from the sun, and have seen every 
person in the room suddenly awaken, 
and immediately become interested in 
the newcomer. Life speaks to life 
and response is certain. 

Nothing is more magnetic than the 
habit of measuring people upward in- 
stead of downward, judging them by 
the usually manifested good and the 
high things of which they are capable, 
and ignoring all unworthy habits and 
qualities which they possess. *'We can't 



THE MAGNET 45 

be very bad, because the old man so 
believes in us and trusts us. We 
should hate to disappoint him." This 
was the spirit which animated the 
Rugby boys because the "old man," 
Thomas Arnold, who has been put on 
record as one of the most magnetic 
men that ever lived, simply refused to 
acknovv'ledge anything but trustworth- 
iness and nobility in his lads. 

"What is the first thing you do to 
redeem the apparent wrecks you pick 
up on the streets?" a Salvation Army 
woman was asked. 

"We love them, and show them that 
we trust and respect them," was the 
reply, "and almost every one of them 
immediately begins to become lovable 
and self-respecting. Then the work of 
amendment is easy." 

This leads to a great truth which 
must be acknowledged and acted upon 



4-6 THE MAGNET 

by the person who is to be truly mag- 
netic: distrust and a belief in the de- 
pravity of another sends out an elec- 
tric and repellant aura which always 
works harm. Love and respect have 
the most tremendous drawing power 
of any two things in the world. 

Sincerity which makes itself felt, 
and the habit of kindly showing and 
expressing interest in and sympathy 
for the things which concern others, 
are great magnetism creators. **I 
never minded my own business but 
once in my life, and then I was sorry 
for it," declared a big-hearted, sympa- 
thetic, most magnetic woman. 

The magnetic person is lifted up 
above the habit of sneering, making 
cutting or sarcastic remarks, or in- 
dulging in jokes which reflect unpleas- 
antly upon another. These things 
make for demagnetism. In short, the 



THE MAGNET 47 

magnetic personality is made by an 
inner royal nature showing through. 

SUMMARY AND EXERCISE. 

Personal cleanliness, neat and satis- 
fying clothing, good health, and a 
sense of self-respect create magnetism. 
A feeling of shame is demagnetizing. 
Distrust, insincerity, belief in anoth- 
er's depravity, sneers, sarcasm, rude 
habits, all destroy or prevent magnet- 
ism. The greatest magnetism makers 
are love and respect. 

Say, when alone, at least once a 
day: I will to he clean within and 
without. I will to he loving, kind, 
sympathetic, well, and in all things fit 
for the temple of the Holy Spirit. 



V. 

HOW TO MAGNETIZE CIRCUMSTANCES. 

How shall you make your generated 
and increased magnetism a real, prac- 
tical power in your daily life ? By ap- 
plying it to the affairs of everyday 
life. The boast of Napoleon that he 
"made circumstances" has been con- 
sidered by most people a daring state- 
ment even for one of such great abil- 
ity in planning and executing as was 
the "little corporal," and as altogether 
presumptuous and idle for a lesser 
person. And yet it is the real truth 
that nearly every one is, in a large 
measure, making his circumstances, 
and a more important and tremendous 



THE MAGNET 49 

truth Is that if he will intelligently, 
resolutely and persistently work tow- 
ards this end, one may make his cir- 
cumstances, in a very great degree, 
what he will. 

A point not to be overlooked or lost 
sight of is that one who is to magnet- 
ize circumstances must work always 
from his magnetic center, and accord- 
ing to the things which keep at its 
most intense possible force the subtle 
life which is magnetism itself. 

What feeds this life and forms its 
substance and compelling power? 
Righteousness. The white heart, the 
pure purpose, the inwardly still, 
poised self, the mental attitude which 
forbids injustice, unkindness, indiffer- 
ence, insincerity, uncleanliness of mind 
or body. 

By making circumstances Napoleon 
meant that he made them such as he 



50 THE MAGNET 

wished them to be. He began later, 
though of this he did not speak, to 
make circumstances such as he did not 
wish them to be by the stupendous 
injustice and imkindness of putting 
away Josephine at the dictates of a 
selfish ambition. It has many times 
been said that had he ''been himself" 
on the day of Waterloo, Wellington 
would not have been victor. He 
ceased to be ''himself," his poised, sat- 
isfied, strong, alert self, when he did 
a thing which forever afterwards 
called for excuse and justification, 
and, finding nothing adequate to an- 
swer these demands, tore at, and 
wracked, and tormented the center of 
life, causing weakness, remorse, anH 
mental devastation, all deadly foes to 
the mas^netism which alone can r^^ke 
circumstances to one's liking. ^ 

History and private life teei vvith 



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annals of rulers and individuals who 
have begun to fail in all things in 
which they most desired to succeed 
from the day they did some great 
wrong, or from the hour they began a 
series of small meannesses. 

It is not merely a sentiment, but a 
scientific fact, that unto the kingdom 
of heaven shall be added all things, 
for the kingdom of heaven means a 
strong heart, a clear brain, an unwor- 
ried mind, a cheerful habit of thought, 
and, consequently, the poised, pur- 
poseful life, which is the only life 
which makes desirable circumstances. 

A strong purpose is a great mag- 
netizer. The listless, shifting, flabby 
individual has no strong, subtle life at 
the center, and cannot, therefore, be 
"netic. The most magnetic people 
wi .ave ever lived have been tre- 
mei ously earnest in carrying out 



52 THE MAGNET 

some idea. A humble, unheralded 
monk drew thousands after him to 
terrible harships, almost unbearable 
privations, and, in many cases, to cer- 
tain death in a foreign land simply be- 
cause he purposed so strongly in his 
heart, and was not afraid to go stead- 
ily onward towards the end in view. 
Peter the Hermit had the most intense 
life at the center of his being, and is 
always spoken of as one of the most 
magnetic people that ever existed. 
He was lifted up above littleness, in- 
decision, indifference and weakness. 
The upright and downright person al- 
ways compels resp'^ct and wins confi- 
dence, two tremendous magnetizers. 
It is the upright and downright law- 
yer whom one seeks to conduct his 
case, the upright and downright mer- 
chant from whom one buys his goods, 
the upright and downright suitor who 



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is chosen from among other men to 
become the husband. 

Honesty is a great magnetizer. It 
gives the direct glance and the certain 
movements which attract paying cus- 
tomers and good conditions. It was 
said of a certain transcendentalist that 
"he soared into the infinite and dived 
into the unfathomable, but never paid 
cash." He who is to be magnetic 
must, in character, in habits, in man- 
ner, in all his dealings with himself 
and others, pay cash. One who fails 
to pay his dues of money, of honor, of 
kindness, of courtesy, of neatness, 
comes short, by just the measure of 
his failure, of attaining unto perfect 
magnetism. 

To be master of and busy about 
something adds wonderfully to one's 
magnetism. The exercise thus afford- 
ed the brain, the increased facilitv 



54 THE MAGNET 

given to the executive ability, and the 
interest thus kept alive, engender self- 
respect, keep the mind from morbid 
fancies and unvi^holesome introspec- 
tion, and thus help mightily to inten- 
sify that central life which is mag- 
netism. 

The person who is to wholly domi- 
nate and control circumstances must 
he without fear, and must pursue that 
course and calling which he intelli- 
gently chooses for himself. 

No one can kindle the magnetic cen- 
tral fire that sends out aura which 
attracts success who is doing work 
which he dislikes, or for which his 
tastes and inclinations do not fit him. 

A certain firm decided to issue a 
book on different subjects pertaining 
to everyday life and work. The plan 
was well conceived, the persons cho- 
sen to do the work capable, talented, 



THE MAGNET 55 

and efficient, but selected because, by 
stress of circumstances, they had been 
placed in such positions that they felt 
they must accept work at any price, 
and so could be used by the rich but 
economical publishers with little out- 
lay. The book, well illustrated, well 
printed, attractively bound, and of- 
fered at a reasonable price, was an 
utter failure. Why? Because no love, 
no enthusiasm, no sense of worthy ac- 
complishment breathed into it that 
breath of life which, going forth as 
magnetic aura, would have insured for 
it success. A truth never to be over- 
looked or forgotten by him who is to 
control circumstances is that the life 
which he puts into his work is the life 
which will go out, and on that life will 
depend the work's success or failure. 
And the work must be done, the 
course pursued, without fear. No one 



5^ THE MAGNET 

was ever habitually afraid to his ad- 
vantage, no one v^as ever habitually 
unafraid to his disadvantage. 

He who magnetizes circumstances 
must be his own master, and no one 
is his own master who is swayed by 
the opinions, the caprices, or the ridi- 
cule of others, or who is dominated 
and held in bondage by some folly or 
weakness of his own. One to be a 
perfect magnet must be free in mind, 
thought, and action. 

It may be declared that the ways 
set forth for magnetizing circum- 
stances are all intangible. Right here 
is the place to stop and realize two tre- 
mendous truths : the mightiest forces 
are invisible, hut as tangible as elec- 
tricity or breath. The aura you send 
out is to you the greatest power in the 
universe for success or failure, and ac- 
cording to your character and habits 



THE MAGNET 57 

will he that aura. No successful hav- 
ing can come from selfish and mean 
being. 

One may say that he can name 
men who are dishonest, and selfish, 
and mean, and yet who live in grand 
houses filled with costly upholstery 
and works of art, whose private cars 
glide along railroads, whose yachts 
dot the sea. True ! But think if you 
can name one such whose money has 
bought or kept those things without 
which money is useless — health, joy, 
peace, pleasure in daily life, apprecia- 
tion of Nature. These men have 
thrown out their attracting aura in 
just one direction for just one pur- 
pose, and the result is warped minds, 
dwarfed souls, unhealthy bodies, and 
utter lack of real joy and peace. 

An encouraging fact is that moral, 
and hence magnetic, qualities, once es- 



58 THE MAGNET 

tablished, grow and strengthen with 
great rapidity. Man's natural tend- 
ency is towards good, and in nurtur- 
ing those feelings, actions, emotions 
which make for righteousness all the 
powers of good are with him, and he 
is working along the line of least re- 
sistance. 

Do not believe in or talk about hard 
times, failure, discouragement, sick- 
ness, or anything you do not want in 
your life. Talk success, accomplish- 
ment, joy, peace, and abounding Hfe. 
Things, like people, hearing their 
names persistently called, will come. 
Above all, put and keep yourself in 
every-moment touch with the great 
Source of Power from which all good 
things may be confidently claimed. 

SUMMARY AND EXERCISE. 

By applying magnetism to everyday 



THE MAGNET 59 

life one may make circumstances. 
One must always work from his mag- 
netic center. Injustice or meanness 
are great demagnetizers. A strong 
purpose, the mastery of something, in- 
dustry, honesty, fearlessness, and the 
habit of looking for good things, are 
great magnetizers. Say during the 
silent hour: / will to he just, right- 
eous, honest, and free, and to control 
my life for power and success. I will 
that all the powers of good shall he 
my helpers, and to keep in constant, 
vital touch with the great Source of 
all desirable things. I will to succeed 
in (here anything in which one is es- 
pecially interested or desirous of suc- 
ceeding may be named). 



VI. 

HOW TO WIN AND TO KEEP LOVE. 

''What do you want most of any- 
thing?" asked a woman^ who, being 
known to put questions with a pur- 
pose, was usually answered with truth 
and frankness. 

"I want," replied the person ad- 
dressed, "some one to love me the best 
of anybody in the world. I never said 
this out loud before, but it is true." 

Of course it was true. Moreover, 
though it is seldom spoken "out loud," 
this is the dominating wish of every 
normal human being. 

We sometimes hear it said of a per- 
son that he is "lovesick." As a mat- 



THE MAGNET 6l 

ter of fact, though one speaks with a 
smile or a sneer of another being love- 
sick, two-thirds of the world is love- 
sick (sick for love), and the feeling is 
perfectly legitimate. The sacred wri- 
ter could give God no higher praise 
than to say that He was Love. Love 
is ever the theme of the author, the 
poet, the maker of songs. It is as nat- 
ural as breath, as honorable as life, as 
necessary to happiness as are food and 
shelter to health. A person should no 
more be ashamed of his thirst for love 
than of his thirst for water. 

Love is the great refiner, the great 
stimulator, the great purger of selfish- 
ness, sin, and despair. He who truly 
and nobly loves, and is loved in re- 
turn, has come into a kingdom where- 
in he is guarded from those influences 
that would despoil his character and 
belittle his soul. 



62 THE MAGNET 

How can the love which blesses, en- 
nobles, satisfies, be won and kept? 

Hundreds have asked this question 
privately, thousands have yearned to 
ask it, millions have longed to have it 
adequately answered. 

Can this love be won at all by any 
one who will pay the price of win- 
ning it ? 

The answer is plain, clear, and em- 
phatic. It is sure to be won by any 
person who zvorks with the laws that 
produce it. 

And he who wins love, or anything 
else, according to law, will hold it just 
as long as he continues to work ac- 
cording to law. 

What wins love of any kind, the 
lover's love, the friend's love, the 
child's love? Magnetism. What holds 
love of all kinds ? Continued and sus- 
tained magnetism, A horseshoe mag- 



THE MAGNET 63 

net will draw unto itself every particle 
of steel or iron filings which comes 
within the radius of its influence, and 
hold each particle forever unless it 
becomes demagnetized. Can the mag- 
net be counted upon every time and 
always to draw the filings? Yes, be- 
cause it works according to the law of 
magnetism. Can it be counted upon 
every time and always to lose the fil- 
ings if it becomes demagnetized? 
Surely, because it works according 
to the law of demagnetism. 

Settle two points once and forever 
in your mind : all love, of whatever 
kind, is won hy magnetism, all love, 
of whatezfer kind, is lost hy demag- 
netism. Two equally important things 
to remember are that no love can ever 
he won without magnetism, no love 
can ever he wholly lost while magnet- 
ism remains. 



04 THE MAGNET 

It thus becomes clear that one who 
is to win and hold love must become 
and remain a magnet. 

How shall one become a magnet ? 

Never by anything outside himself. 

Occasionally one sees advertised 
some charm or preparation which is 
warranted to win love; and now and 
then a person will declare that by such 
means he actually won affection or 
some other desired thing. In such a 
case, if the truth were known, it 
would be found that the belief that 
the wished-for object was to be gained 
had created in the brain a set of mag- 
netic vibrations which really won the 
coveted thing. It requires more con- 
tinued credulity than most people pos- 
sess to cause a charm to "work" satis- 
factorily. 

Sometimes a person imagines he can 
gain the affection of another by hav- 



THE MAGNET 65 

ing "a good Avord" spoken for him, or 
by parading his possessions or rich or 
titled connections. All this, like other 
outside means, is futile. 

Only magnetism wins and holds 
love, and one's magnetism is as much 
a part of himself as are his eyes or his 
hands. 

As has been said, magnetism is one 
of the most forcible, effective and 
subtle forms of life. What is love? 
Another form of forcible, effective, 
subtle life. Like attracts like. Mag- 
netism draws and holds love. 

A most important fact for the 
would-be magnet is that the person 
who, without selfishness, unkindness, 
or neglect of others, is sufficient unto 
himself, is magnetic. 

"I "have learned," said one who 
knew whereof he spoke, "that as soon 
as one grets where he can stand abso- 



66 



THE MAGNET 



lutely alone he always has plenty to 
stand with him." 

Napoleon, Margaret Fuller, Frances 
Willard and Henry Ward Beecher 
have been spoken of as among the 
most magnetic souls the world has 
ever seen. These people were ca- 
pable of the most ardent affection, the 
most acute emotion, but no person or 
circumstances could reduce them to 
despair, or throw their lives into 
chaos, hence nothing could demagnet- 
ize them. The clinging vine attitude 
may be fascinating for a time, but 
when the glamour which it generates, 
and which never lasts long, disap- 
pears, every vestige of magnetism 
goes with it, and the dinger is left 
to droop without special notice from 
any one. "It is a strange thing," said 
a woman, who, because of her troops 
of admirers is called "the spoiled dar- 



THE MAGNET 67 

ling," ''that when I fairly agonized 
for friends I had but few, and of those 
few the ones I most loved deserted me. 
I sometimes begged for love, some- 
times I grew desperate and demanded 
it. I wept at the least coldness, wor- 
ried hours of the night if one whom I 
loved seemed to neglect me, and was 
miserable nine-tenths of the time, with 
very little of the love for which I en- 
dured all this as compensation. At 
last I decided that I would enjoy my 
own self-respect and approval — I had 
lost them in my frantic efforts to win 
and to keep love — would treat people 
courteously and kindly, but that they 
might love me or not as they chose., I 
resolved to be happy without such as 
did not give themselves to me with- 
out any of my mental antics. I became, 
by force of will, quiet of mind and of 
heart. I read and studied, laug^hed 



68 THE MAGNET 

and sang, provided myself such en- 
tertainment as I could, and looked to 
myself for happiness. And behold ! I 
grew to have so much love I was fair- 
ly bewildered by it. I am plain of 
face and of dress, and have no com- 
pany manners, but love and attentions 
pour in upon me. I don't understand 
it at all." 

Had this woman understood, she 
would have known that by her "men- 
tal antics," her appeals and desperate 
demands, her tears and worry and 
sleeplessness, she was continually and 
surely demagnetizing herself, and thus 
making it impossible for her to win 
or to hold the love she craved. 

It is a truth that cannot be too well 
or widely known that all undue emo- 
tion is demagnetizing. The tears, re- 
proaches and entreaties by which 
wives, sweethearts, friends, strive to 



THE MAGNET 69 

hold those who are, or seem to be, 
slipping away from them, are the very 
forces which weaken, and in many 
cases finally snap, the cords which 
held them. 

Everywhere and always "mental 
antics" are destroyers of magnetism. 
It was when she was "quiet of heart 
and of mind," when she laughed and 
sang and was sufficient unto herself 
for happiness, that the woman quoted 
above won and held love. And her 
method must be that of every one who 
is to win and to hold love. 

Jealousy, whether between husband 
and wife, lover and sweetheart, parent 
and child, or friend and friend, is one 
of the greatest destroyers of magnet- 
ism, and, consequently, one of the bit- 
terest foes to love. It creates mean 
and hateful emotions of the mind, 
causes inharmony, estrangement, and 



70 THE MAGNET 

ill-health, and gives a sense of degra- 
dation to the one who indulges in it 
and the one who awakens it. Respect, 
trust, and confidence are the three 
great bulwarks of love. Jealousy 
sweeps them all away, and leaves an- 
ger, impatience, and resentment in 
their places. 

If you are inclined to be jealous of 
a person, tell yourself over and over 
again in the silence that you are in- 
capable of so ignoble a feeling, claim 
immunity from it, and let the one who 
might have aroused it know by word, 
act, and glance that you fully trust 
him. The people are few who will 
not live up to the standard set for 
them by those they love. Trust and 
you make trustworthy; distrust and 
you create untrustworthiness. 

"How did you reclaim and redeem 
Richard?" asked her dear friend of a 



THE MAGNET ?! 

woman whose husband had shown 
strong signs of infideHty. **I respect- 
ed and trusted him back to honor and 
more than his old love," was the reply. 
"I repeatedly assured myself and him 
that I placed implicit trust in him. I 
claimed his loyalty and love when I sat 
in the silence, and I told him mentally, 
and sometimes audibly, that I knew 
nothing could separate us or lessen 
our love for each other." 

Another great demagnetizer is the 
casting away between any two people, 
however near and dear, of all mental, 
spiritual, or physical reserves. A per- 
son should never lose the conviction 
that he owns himself, and that there is 
within his being a Holy of holies to 
which God and himself may alone 
have access except as a rare and sa- 
cred favor. The utter abandonment 
of one's self to another, mentally or 



72 THE MAGNET 

physically, is a mistake for which one 
pays in loss of self-respect, the respect 
of others, and of power and love. 

Let no one dream that he can hab- 
itually indulge in impure thoughts or 
acts and be^ or continue to be, mag- 
netic. These things change the cur- 
rent of the blood, disorganize the 
functions of the body, disfigure the 
face, and destroy that poise, buoyancy 
and brightness of spirit and tone 
which are as essential to magnetism as 
is sunlight to the rainbow. 

A truth which cannot be too for- 
cibly impressed upon the mind is that, 
while love is legitimate and legiti- 
mately desired, and while it is proper 
and right to bring all one's mental 
skill and strength to the winning of it, 
there is great danger, as well as great 
dishonor, in winning, or trying to win, 
love which cannot be honorably won. 



THE MAGNET 73 

In all history there is no record of 
an unholy or illegitimate love which 
brought forth anything but final mis- 
ery. The reason is plain. The wrong 
aura, generated and sent out by the 
wrong thought, attracts and brings 
back more wrong aura, and all the 
purity of thought and purpose, all the 
righteousness which is the real soul of 
that central life which is lasting mag- 
netism, is, by deceit, selfishness, and 
impurity, blasted, and smothered, and 
killed. That which is not yours by 
right may perhaps be won, but it can 
never be held with honor, comfort, or 
happiness. 

Good health, as we have seen, is a 
great magnetism-maker. Magnetism 
is life, and attracts its vitally alive 
twin, love. 

He who is most alive in every fiber 
of his being, brain, heart, lungs, limbs, 



74 THE MAGNET 

is he who will win most love. The 
people named as masters of magnet- 
ism were all vitally and tremendously 
alive. The partially diseased or par- 
tially alive person is never more 
than partially magnetic. Full vol- 
umed life, of which love is one of 
the most vital forms, answers only to 
full volumed life. Duty, friendship, 
philanthropy, cause the long sick to 
be tenderly cared for, but, except in 
very rare cases, like that of Mrs. 
Browning, where the soul remains so 
insistently alive as to magnetize even 
tottering limbs and weak muscles, no 
pulsing, vital love is given to the 
chronic invalid, whose system works 
according to the law of demagnetism. 
This suggests another important 
reason why one should not indulge in 
"mental antics." They destroy and 
dissipate life. 



THE MAGNET 75 

Always look people at whom you 
look at all, no matter what your rela- 
tions or desired relations with them 
may be, straight in the eyes. The full, 
straightforward glance is the magnetic 
glance. 

Above all, have a settled belief in 
the great overshadowing Power of 
which you are a part, and in yourself. 
This will insure the heart repose, hope 
generation and constant cheerfulness 
which are the best magnetism-makers 
and preservers. 

SUMMARY AND EXERCISE. 

Love is universally and legitimately 
desired. It will be won and kept, or 
lessened or lost according as one mag- 
netizes or demagnetizes himself. All 
violent or erratic states of mind or 
movements of body demagnetize. 
Quietness of mind and of body are 
essential to magnetism. 



76 THE MAGNET 

Sit every day absolutely alone and 
perfectly still, for at least twenty min- 
utes — a longer time is better. Fix 
your entire attention on the thing you 
desire. Say earnestly and impressive- 
ly : / am an irresistible magnet, which 
draws unto itself ez-'crythijtg it desires. 
I am quiet of heart and of manner, 
clear of brain, clean of heart, habits, 
speech and body, capable and worthy 
of commanding all good things. I 
claim (whatever you wish) as mine 
already, and that I shall very soon tan- 
gibly realize its possession. 



VII. 

HOW TO REMAIN A MAGNET. 

How shall you hold and keep the 
new life, which is the new magnetism, 
by which you shall gain all things ? 

Simply by allowing no vacuum and 
no solidification in your life reservoir. 

"What splendid water you have!" 
said a man who had driven into a for- 
mer neighbor's yard to ask for a drink. 
"It is so clear, and cool, and satisfy- 
ing ! I am told that people come long 
distances to get it. But isn't this the 
old well from which you could once 
get water only a part of the year, and 
then it was not very good ?" 

,LcfC. 



7^ THE MAGNET 

''That well was the beginning" of 
this one,'* was the reply. 'The old one 
was choked up with caked earth and 
rotten leaves, and nearly all the pas- 
sages which let in a fresh supply were 
thus stopped, so the water it did have 
was partially foul and stagnant. I 
cleaned out all the obstructions, and 
opened the way for the inflow, and 
the water is now always what you 
see it." 

The lives of thousands are like that 
old well, choked up with the caked 
earth of old traditions, theories, ideas 
and practices, thus making impossible 
the inflow of that fresh, satisfying life 
which is magnetism. It was when the 
dead matter was all cleared away, and 
the inlet for fresh water opened, that 
the well became a magnet which con- 
stantly drew people unto it. 

Having cleaned out all your dead 



THE MAGNET 79 

leaves and caked earth of anger, irri- 
tation, useless movements, ill-health, 
dishonesty, too little or too much giv- 
ing of yourself, and everything else 
which clogs, and hinders, and stag- 
nates, open wide, and keep open, your 
mind, heart, and life to those truths, 
emotions, and interests which make 
for life, and hence for magnetism. 
Never allow any part of you, brain, 
heart, mind, body, to acquire that 
stagnation and rigidity which mean 
death, and, hence, total lack of mag- 
netism. Remember that it is the pur- 
poseful, progressive, virile life which 
is magnetic, and that the state of the 
mind causes the body's stagnation or 
virility. 

'The old truths are good enough 
for me," is an expression one often 
hears. So they are, or should be, for 
every one, but there are always new 



So THE MAGNET 

developments, wiser interpretations, 
more helpful meanings of the old 
truths. One might as well say of 
stage-coaching that it is good enough 
for him, and refuse to utilize railroad 
trains, as to refuse the advantages of 
the later and more practical meanings 
of truth because they were not for- 
merly known and recognized. Fresh 
ideas, fresh emotions, fresh endeavors, 
are to life what fresh, clear water was 
to that stagnant, almost useless, wholly 
despised well. 

Remember that the life which is 
magnetism is a thing of the mind and 
will, 

"I remember," a very old lady re- 
cently remarked, "when the woman 
who was not married at twenty-five 
was considered, and considered her- 
self, a hopeless old maid, and a woman 
of forty was looked upon, and looked 



THE MAGNET 8l 

upon herself, as too old to carry on 
any hard or difficult work, to say noth- 
ing of beginning any new thing. In 
these days one is a young girl at twen- 
ty-five, and hardly middle-aged at 
fifty. And the strange part of it is 
that the old maid of twenty-five and 
the old woman of forty looked and 
acted older than many women of forty 
and sixty do now." 

The fact which was so puzzling to 
the speaker is one readily understood 
by the occult student. Tradition and 
theory had cast into the minds of 
people young in years the stagnating 
belief that they were old, and they no 
longer kept open the inlets by which 
new life would have entered, and so 
became rigid and unmagnetic. 

Why is it that during late years so 
many young men have married women 
past middle life ? Because these wom- 



82 THE MAGNET 

en have never thought of themselves 
as old, have never ceased to keep 
abreast with new ideas, have not been 
afraid to adopt new theories, to take 
up new enterprises, and to enjoy those 
pleasures which were formerly con- 
fined to people whose years were few. 
and so have kept vital, and added to, 
their magnetic life. The marriage of 
a young man with a woman who con- 
sidered herself old, and acted accord- 
ingly, has never been known. 

Keep the intellect keen and bright 
by study, reflection, and conversation. 
See healthy, cheerful, unafraid people 
of all ages. Go to plays and social 
gatherings. Seek out the poor and 
the hungry, whether their poverty be 
of purse or of heart, and learn the joy 
and satisfaction of "the giving that is 
gaining." 

In no case neglect your daily sitting 



THE MAGNET 83 

In the silence, for it is in these still 
moments that you draw the most ef- 
fective power to carry out any design 
of brain or of heart. 

Always keep fixed in your mind the 
truth that, since you are capable of 
creating the aura which shall draw to 
you, and keep for you, all that you de- 
sire, it is your privilege, as it is 
your purpose, to make yourself a per- 
fect and all-compelling magnet. 

SUMMARY AND EXERCISE. 

Stagnation of ideas, emotions or 
movements hinder magnetism. Fresh 
thoughts and emotions, intellectual ex- 
ercises, indulgence in legitimate pleas- 
ures, constant contact with life, daily 
sitting in the silence, and a recognition 
of the truth that one creates his own 
aura, and may. therefore, make his 
own destiny, go far towards keeping 
one a magnet. 



^4 THE MAGNET 

Say earnestly in the silence : / 
choose to clear my mind, heart, and 
intellect of everything zvhich clogs and 
stagnates, and to keep open all the ave- 
nues by which life and light may en- 
ter. I demand, and expect, that all- 
pervading, all-vitalizing, divine life 
which, showing forth in my every 
thought, word, and deed, shall make 
me, and keep me, a perfect magnet. 



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